Nevergrind Online - Worlds First Multiplayer Blobber - June 9th

Drukqs

If you don't know what a blobber is, look up games like Wizardry or Might and Magic: Clouds of Xeen.

A solo developer is launching the very first multiplayer online blobber called "Nevergrind Online"

https://store.steampowered.com/app/853450/Nevergrind_Online/

The game is all about grouping up, clearing dungeons, and obtaining random loot. It has your standard White<Blue<Yellow<Purple<Green item structure that we are used to in ARPG's.

The game offers 12 different races, each with different racial traits. As well as, 14 character classes.

bellweather

https://store.steampowered.com/app/853450/Nevergrind_Online/more-detail

When I was growing up, some of my first PC games were the Might and Magic / Wizardy series. I’m actually really excited to play a multiplayer version but has the loot hunt of an ARPG. Figured I would post this here seeing as the forum is called “Games and Technology”. Being the first blobbler multiplayer experience could be the gateway to some new ideas with loot driven games.

Kyleran

 Played most of these sorts of games when they were first released, read about them in magazines like Computer Gaming World, yet never have I heard of the term "blobber" before today.

Pretty sure people on the internet just make stuff up, this was never a thing back in the day ..I was there...

I thought the thread was going to be about @JoeBlober or SC.

Now for the important question...will we need to use graph paper to navigate?

Scot

bellweather said:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/853450/Nevergrind_Online/more-detail

When I was growing up, some of my first PC games were the Might and Magic / Wizardy series. I’m actually really excited to play a multiplayer version but has the loot hunt of an ARPG. Figured I would post this here seeing as the forum is called “Games and Technology”. Being the first blobbler multiplayer experience could be the gateway to some new ideas with loot driven games.

Welcome to the forums!

Scot

Guys I don't want to have a pop at the game, I liked the idea and the graphics I saw were above average for what they wanted to achieve. So this is just a "current gen" graphics complaint. To quote from a definition of Blobber I found:

"Blobbers originated as much out of technological limitation as intentional design in the early 1980s."

The 80's are past, we need games like Nevergrind with graphics for the 20's. Lets see that team, lets be those avatars. However, it has a lot of gameplay I favour so it gets a tick.

cheyane

Oh god this is so much like Everquest I am so excited. I hope it won't make me sick the first person view but I think since I played Bard's Tale 4 with almost no problems (except when solving puzzles which I had to occasionally stop because it was causing motion sickness and headaches). This seems like the same set up and not a first person shooter with wild angle changes that cause nausea. This one the fights are stationary with no movements and it should not exacerbate by problem with first person games.

That said and done I watched a youtube video on the game and it even sounds like Everquest the skeleton giggles the spell sounds and the almost all of it even the classes are like Everquest. That in itself is already a huge endorsement for me.

I think I will buy it.

Iselin

This looks so retro.

I played the crap out of Dungeon Master on an Atari ST in the late '80s. It was single player but a party based (party of 4) dungeon crawl that entertained me and my then 4 yr. old son who loved watching me play, for hours.

No idea they were calling these 1st person only dungeon crawlers blobbers but apparently they have been calling them that for a while.

Mendel

Interesting.  I've always loved the various party-based cRPG games of the 80s and 90s.  This may have some potential in a couple of years.

veronijohanz

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